Teen explorer schools internet trolls with 'South Pole sandwich'

Teenage explorer Jade Hameister is seriously badass. The 16-year-old has just become the youngest person ever to complete the Polar Hat Trick (travelling to the North and South Poles, and across Greenland – and found a moment to troll her internet bullies on the way.

When she was 14, Melburnian Hameister gave a TEDx talk in her home city, in which she talked about the pressure put on women to look and act a certain way.

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Her message to women and girls was to follow their own ambitions, to try "adventurous thinking", and "to try and be more, not less".

Sexist remarks, depressingly and unsurprisingly, flooded the comments section of her YouTube video. And the one that got the most attention (and so kept popping up) was the popular meme quote: "Make me a sandwich."

"Make me a sandwich" has been used to frustrate, throw off and shut down women and their achievements online and increasingly in the real world since it appeared as a joke on Saturday Night Live in 1995.

"Then we skied over to the Ceremonial South Pole (probably the Pole that everyone knows as the only South Pole – the barbers Pole with the flags) and the actual Geographic South Pole (which moves around 10m each year), which is marked separately. In the afternoon we were given a tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. It is seriously as close to what a Base on another planet would be like than anything else on the planet – a mini-town based around the scientific work of the National Science Foundation."

Then, with the important stuff out the way, Hameister had a message for her trolls.

"Tonight (it never gets dark this time of year) I skied back to the Pole again ... to take this photo for all those men who commented 'Make me a sandwich' on my TEDX Talk," she wrote.

"I made you a sandwich (ham & cheese), now ski 37 days and 600km to the South Pole and you can eat it xx"